Tag: isao takahata

We’re back! Somehow, it is almost halfway through August! Time marches onward, and we’re here as usual to raise a middle finger in Time’s wizened and terrifying face via another index of recent attention to older anime.

Welcome back! We’re pleased to note that we’ve been at this for about half a year now, and we’ve begun gradually building up the kind of longer-term, searchable archive of discussion about older anime that we wanted. As usual, remarks from Feez are in blue and those from Thaliarchus are in red.Continue reading “Redshift #12”→

Turn A Gundam, nineteen years old last week and the subject of two posts linked below

In contrast to last fortnight, we have a bumper crop of material this time around: twenty blogposts and columns, plus the usual smattering of podcasts and newly-translated episodes! As usual, remarks from Feez are in blue and those from Thaliarchus are in red. (And I recently noticed that these colours don’t come through in feedreaders, or at least not in the one I use. I’m, ah, thinking about whether we can do anything about that!)Continue reading “Redshift #7”→

Isao Takahata died this week. Understandably, many of the published obituaries and tributes have focused on his great films and his role as a co-founder of Studio Ghibli. But he was also someone who was involved in TV anime, from 1963 to 1983. In one sense what we’re living through now, and will be seeing for some time yet, is the gradual departure of the remaining industry figures who experienced the birth of commercial, mass-broadcast anime as adults.

I remember taking a friend who knew nothing about anime to see The Tale of Princess Kaguya, the last film Takahata directed, when it ran in cinemas here in 2015. We left afterwards delighted and moved, my friend possibly even more so than me. Takahata was a great artist.

It’s always sad to see an influential figure pass on. Takahata will undoubtedly be remembered. I haven’t seen many of his works, but Only Yesterday is a calm and moving film, and The Tale of Princess Kaguya is something I’ll remember forever.

But time continues to pass, and for now we’re here to try to keep track of things people have written and said about older anime. As usual, remarks from Feez are in blue and those from Thaliarchus are in red. Continue reading “Redshift #6”→